Trial, business, insurance, personal injury, and contract law. Preparatory education, Southern Methodist University (B.A. and B.S. 1976) Phi Beta Kappa, Departmental Distinction and University of Virginia (M.A. 1978); legal education, University of Kansas (J.D. 1982). Co-author "Real Estate Litigation," University of Houston Advanced Business Litigation Course. Member State Bar of Texas and Oklahoma.